Chapter 207 The Eve of the Scientific Exam
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Chang'an, Princess Taiping Mansion
Looking at the face of the still delicate skin in the mirror for a long time, Princess Taiping Li Lingyue used her fingers to relax the fine lines of the fish tail at the corners of her eyes and smiled gently. A person in her fifties can still maintain her appearance like this is a proud thing no matter what.
It is said that the Lishan Hot Spring has the effect of maintaining beauty and immortality. It seems that this is reasonable. Unfortunately, today's hot springs are not very comfortable and were disturbed by the people sent by the Minister of Rites.
In the past few years, Princess Taiping has always had a leisurely life in the past few days before the scientific examination. There is no way. There are only 10 or 20 places to be admitted every year, but there are as many as two or three thousand people who want these places. It is really a laborious job to choose. You must consider the talent, family background, and background. It is fine. I am afraid that there will be some changes before the exam. Once there is a change, it means that you have to re-examine the work you have done before. It is not easy to determine that person before, many have even made wishes. At this moment, you will take off people at this critical moment. In the end, it may be not only one person, or even a family. This is really unwilling to do it for Princess Taiping, who is trying his best to win people's hearts.
The more I fear, the more I come. Now the minister of the Ministry of Rites sent someone to do it. As the scientific examination was about to begin, the quota that had been planned had to be changed.
Everything was just because the person who greeted the Minister of Rites was too big. Empress Wei, who had not asked about the scientific examinations in the past two years, suddenly asked for a place in the Jinshi class. How did the Minister of Rites refuse?
As a relative of the foreigner, the Wei clan members can become officials with their kindness and do not need to take the Jinshi exam at all. So who has such great face to ask the queen to be a lobbyist for him?
After the palace servant who was serving her closely, Princess Taiping looked at her with satisfaction. Then she picked up the red greeting post from the Minister of Rites that had been on the dressing table.
"Tang Cheng, a tribute student from Dongdao Township, Shannan", Princess Taiping was stunned when she saw this name, "It turned out to be him?"
Princess Taiping was stunned and was about to put a golden stride on her hairpin and the underground palace man turned his hand. The tip of the hairpin poked Li Lingyue's face. In an instant, a small drop of blood came out from her pink and white skin.
Jin Buxiao made a crisp "pop" sound when he landed on the ground, and the palace servant still couldn't help but startled. Zhasha started to look at the blood on the princess's face and was frightened.
Unlike the dazed palace servant, Princess Taiping, who frowned because of the pain, suddenly changed her expression when she saw the bleeding beads on her face. She grabbed the brocade handkerchief on the dressing table and wiped off the blood beads. She looked carefully in Jiang Xin's mirror and saw that there was no trace of the wound on her face. Then she let out a breath with relief.
"Princess forgive me." At this time, the palace maid finally woke up and knelt down suddenly and kowtowed repeatedly, "I think about my dedicated service for the past few years, please ask Your Highness the Princess to spare me."
"Come here", with Princess Taiping's light order, several palace servants who were preparing dresses outside the cosmetic room walked in.
"Some mistakes cannot be made." After saying a word to the Qin Palace people who kowtowed on the ground like pounding garlic, Princess Taiping waved her hand: "Drag down and be 80 years old. I will pass on a message to the second housekeeper. I think that the Qin Palace people have been working hard in the past few years. After her death, the family's pension can be doubled. In addition, arrange a better position for her brother in a village outside the city to support her parents. Go!"
"Your Highness the Princess is kind to you..." The Qin Palace people, who were as limp as mud, were half dragged and half helped out before they finished speaking.
After looking carefully in Jiang Xin's mirror in front of him, Princess Taiping picked up the prayer letter from the Minister of Rites again.
After a while, she reached out and held the red rope tied to the dressing table. Not long after, a servant walked in gently.
"Can the butler be in the mansion?" Seeing the servant nodding, Princess Taiping said again: "Come to come here quickly."
After a while, the butler with a slightly fat body arrived.
"A few days ago, I asked you to find out the details of Tang Cheng. Is there any result?" Princess Taiping handed over the post to the visit.
"Tang Cheng?" The butler thought for a while before recalling such a person, "I gave the princess' order that day, and I should have received a reward for such a long time." After that, the butler called a palace maid from outside and whispered a few instructions.
After the palace maid left, the butler frowned after reading the post and said, "Lu Jili is so ungrateful. When is it time for such a post?"
"It's not that he doesn't take responsibility, it's that he can't take responsibility at all." He chose another golden shaking hairpin made of ice flowers and lotus jade from the makeup box. Princess Taiping said softly while wearing the hairpin: "This Tang Cheng was my intention to imitate my mother's sister-in-law."
"Empress Wei asked for a quota for Tang Cheng?" It was not until Princess Taiping nodded in person to bring a golden step and a crisp sound that the butler was sure that he heard it correctly, but the more he was so surprised, "How could he join Empress Wei with his position, let alone..."
"I asked the servant who Lu Jili sent to send a message to send a message. The root of this matter is Wei Bo." Looking at himself in the mirror, Princess Taiping suddenly smiled slightly, "Look at the things Yazhengyuan and Tang Cheng did after joining the Yulin Army. The eight-character test that the princess gave him that day underestimated him. Maybe Li Sanlang was laughing at me."
At this moment, the underground palace servant just went out to come back with a thin album. Princess Taiping took the album and looked carefully.
The more Princess Taiping looked at the expression on her face, the more serious it became. This solemnity was more surprising and appreciative. She looked at it carefully after just a rough look. During the process of watching, she raised her head from time to time to think about something. Only after she figured it out would she smile.
"In recent years, this is the most tragic time for this princess to identify people. Tang Cheng is actually a talented person with unique ideas." Princess Taiping closed the album with a "bang" and smiled self-deprecatingly: "How can Li Sanlang find such talents?"
"What does the princess mean?" The butler pondered Princess Taiping's thoughts and said: "Recently, Li Sanlang has made great progress in the Wanqi army, so he is more capable of Tang Chengliang, or... he can make some noises about Tang Chengdi's identity to Wei?" At this point, the butler lit the prayer letter in his hand, "In this way, even the troubles in front of him have been completed."
Upon hearing this, Princess Taiping thought quietly for a while and shook her head with a smile, "Li Sanlang is a concubine's son, and he is the third brother. He is working so hard now, just because the prince is fighting for a prince. What else can he think about? Now he is willing to work hard, which saves the princess the trouble. Speaking of which, Tang Cheng is also working for me. Let him do it with peace of mind."
"Why will Lu Jili return the scientific examination quota or not?"
"Give it, why not? Giving it will not make Lu Jili too embarrassed, but it will also satisfy my sister-in-law, or even Li Sanlang. How can I not do anything that can kill three birds with one stone?" Princess Taiping reached out to take the greeting, picked up the thin pen of the thrush on the dressing table and wrote a few words on it.
"Remember. After this major event is over, you will go to see Tang Cheng in person. It seems that this person is a little embarrassed when he stays under Li Sanlang. It would be better to recruit him."
Tang Cheng took advantage of Wei Bozhi's satisfaction that day to ask him for a Jinshi quota. Although Wei Bo hesitated for a while and agreed, Tang Cheng was still nervous. After all, for him, nothing was more important than this. The result of this matter not only concerns his purpose of coming to Chang'an, but also concerns that he had already established his geographical ideal.
If he is a Jinshi, he will have three months of royal leave after he is selected for the Ministry of Personnel. With these three months to buffer, the matter in Chang'an should be settled. When he is in progress, he can quickly leave Chang'an and take his family to practice the ideal of one county and one state on his own acre of three parts of the land.
Isn’t it just that to go to Chang’an to circle such a big circle?
With his current identity, he really couldn't go to Princess Taiping's Mansion. After Zhang Liang passed the message to Li Longji, Tang Cheng, who was nervous, was anxious and anxious to look forward to the arrival of the final news. After 1,300 years, he once again realized his feelings after the college entrance examination in later generations.
Finally, three days later, he received the long-awaited news from the smiling Wei Bo.
After the final conclusion, Tang Cheng's heart suddenly became empty while a big rock fell to the ground, and then a strong excitement surged into his heart. It made him excited that it was not the title of the Yan Pagoda, the Xinglin Pass Banquet and the parade of horses, but the dawn of his ideal finally revealed and began to bloom the first bud.
"It's not a few days before the scientific examination. You don't need to go to the army to be too diligent in these few days. Let's take your studies out of warmth and make up for your studies." Looking at Tang Cheng with a surprise look, Wei Bo smiled and walked down the Shuai Ban and patted him on the shoulder. "I'll take you to the Wang Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Personnel after you've been on the list. I heard that the Ministry of Works has long been interested in you, and this general can't let them snatch you away."
"Thank you, General." Tang Cheng looked at the respect and appreciation that naturally appeared in Wei Bo's eyes, and for the first time he felt that he was afraid to look at him.
After fighting against Gongcao's military discipline supervision to Tian Shuanghu, Tang Cheng hardly went to the Yulin Army for more than ten days and time after that, and Wei Bo deliberately did not look for him again.
During this period, Tang Cheng seemed to have returned to his life in Jinzhou's study. After getting up every day, he would be with the books. The Four Books and Five Classics need to be carefully spent once or twice again, so as not to get stuck when the first Comics Sutra was stuck. In addition, he focused more on reciting poetry silently. After all, the Jinshi exam was known by this.
During a few days, Tang Cheng searched hard and turned out all the poems he could think of in his mind and carefully sorted them out. Then he used these names as a blueprint and analyzed them in combination with the poems and knowledge of level and tone learned since time travel.
The morning star had not yet set, and the jade rabbit had not yet stopped. He worked hard until the eve of the scientific examination. Tang Cheng picked up the silent poem again and wanted to vomit as he watched it.
After gritting his teeth and reading it carefully, he took the copper basin next to him that had been prepared long ago and burned the stack of poems one by one in the basin.
Chapter completed!